#the aeneid.

[catilinas]

aeneid 6.638-41, 6.672-5 trans. a.s. kline / plutarch, life of tiberius gracchus 9.4-5 trans. perrin

[marcusagrippa]

[agnesandhilda]

pussy so good he forgets about his gods-given quest

[morningsaidthemoon]

Excerpt from The Song of Roland, translated by Norma Lorre Goodrich (Medieval Myths)

[saint-sebastian-coded]

wdym i have to "write essays" and "complete assignments" instead of what i was born to do: listen to loud music and watch spring come in

[absolutechaosss]

Fuck it, classics predictions for Tumblr in 2024

Terfs will go so far in their bio essentialism that they will insist that women are fundamentally cold and wet and men are hot and dry, due to being cooked more in the womb

Fake Tumblr activism will accidentally bring back the Oppian Laws

Aeneas will become Tumblrs new poor little meow meow but only after someone publishes a retelling where he and Turnus are in love

Someone invents another fake goddess

Oracle of Delphi blog emerges to catalogue Tumblr moments of prophecy

[ditoob]

I may have a problem

[slightlyplant]

his father’s son

[thoodleoo]

cycle of violence enjoyers when the violence is cyclical

[wolfythewitch]

Is there a reason Zeus hates Odysseus?

Where? In the odyssey I don't think he cares much for him haha. He kills his crew at Helios' behest (otherwise he would shine for the dead instead), because Odysseus' men had killed his cows. He's pretty ambivalent to Odysseus throughout the epic otherwise.

Unless you mean epic the musical, then I have no idea

[lykeios]

once i start posting in latin it’s over for y’all

[boatmediatourney]

🌊Sad Soggy Boat Men Tournament🌊

Round 4A (semifinals), match 1

Propaganda and image sources under the cut (warning for possible spoilers):

propaganda for Odysseus:

image from Wikipedia

propaganda for Aeneas:

image from here

[o1iveangel]

ok these r the last aeneas’ for a bit (that is probably a lie)

[lastwave]

aeneas makes me crazy dude. he never cared for the future of rome. all he ever wanted was in troy. people kept trying to tell him "its gonna be okay youre gonna make rome" and he went along with it because it was keeping the last things he had of troy alive. he sailed to so many places looking for a place that was safe to call home. no one would take them. he found other trojans, even! and his cousin (helenus) looked him in the eyes and said "you need to go to a land we aren't even sure exists". other trojans wouldn't take them. when he tried to assimilate in carthage, a safe place for his people and for Didos, the gods forced him to leave the person he'd fallen in love with in the most violent and horrible way possible. despite his best efforts troy is slipping from his hands. its been gone the day his fleet left the shore.

aeneas can't be human. he has to be a vessel for the gods exact, contradictory wills at all times or else the last people he has of his home will die. aeneas was named terrible grief for the grief he cause venus by being mortal, but it fits more the grief the gods have caused him. the gods willed him to be born. the gods started the war that destroyed his home, that killed his cousins. the gods turned him away from his fellow trojans. the gods forced him to break the heart of the woman he loved and the only other person hed met that somewhat understood. the gods forced him to war a second time.

aeneas grieves the life he couldve had had he just been a man. aeneas grieves himself who died in troy

[dontforgetukraine]

Illustrations by Anatolii Bazylevych.

More illustrations from Anatolii Bazylevych to Ivan Kotlyarevsky’s poem Aeneid (1982) can be found here.

[firnen-the-teragram-teabag]